Tuesday, September 29, 2015

TEACHED films

From my friend Kelli Amis:

Hi Whitney - I thought it would be a great time to send you an update as we have three new TEACHED films to tell you aboutplus somenew videos on our Youtube channel, TEACHEDTV, that I know you will like. As you know, the TEACHED short film series examines the causes and consequences of the race-based "achievement gap," particularly as experienced by urban youth. The new films in TEACHED Vol. IIgo more deeply into the experiences of black males in particular.

We actually released the first TEACHED Vol. II film, Code Oakland, because it is so timely (this story could not wait!). This 21 min. film has already won five festival awards and has more festival screenings on the horizon. Groups or individuals who want to arrange a screening of Code Oakland (or any of the TEACHED Vol. I films) can do so here. We will premiere the next two short films, Think of Calvin and Offsides, in Washington, DC, the Bay Area and Chicago over the next few months.

For any techies reading this who are so inspired, FYI we are looking for a new "tech angel" to provide 3-5 hours/month pro bono to help us with e-blasts (html coding) and occasional website tweaking. Please consider supporting our social justice and race equality mission with your mad skills! Loads of great karma (and TEACHED swag) could be yours. Go here for more information or email info@teached.org.